The desire to share content and to access it on multiple devices will motivate consumers to start storing a third of their digital content in the cloud by 2016, according to Gartner.
Gartner said that just seven percent of consumer content was stored in the cloud in 2011, but this will grow to 36 percent in 2016.
"Historically, consumers have generally stored content on their PCs, but as we enter the post-PC era, consumers are using multiple connected devices, the majority of which are equipped with cameras." said Shalini Verma, principal research analyst at Gartner. "With the emergence of the personal cloud, this fast-growing consumer digital content will quickly get disaggregated from connected devices."
Gartner predicts that worldwide consumer digital storage needs will grow from 329 exabytes in 2011 to 4.1 zettabytes in 2016. This includes digital content stored in PCs, smart phones, tablets, hard-disk drives (HDDs), network attached storage (NAS) and cloud repositories.
Average storage per household will grow from 464 gigabytes in 2011 to 3.3 terabytes in 2016.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Consumers Will Store More Than 1/3 of Their Digital Content in the Cloud by 2016
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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Thank you for sharing this article. I know I definitely store a lot of content on my cloud so I believe the numbers. I came across it because I have been trying to educate myself on NAS storage because I have heard so much about it and it sounds so interesting. From everything I've heard it's definitely the wave of the future. i think I'm even going to attend a webinar on the Evolution of NAS Storage. Thank you again for sharing!
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